Therapy dog starts work at Iowa middle school

FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — Mellie, an 8-year-old golden Lab therapy dog starting her first year at the Fort Dodge Middle School, knows exactly who's a good dog.Mellie's a good dog.Her human, eighth-grade social studies teacher Glenda Paulson, thinks so too, and said that Mellie can do something that sometimes the humans can't."Dogs are able to help students that are extremely anxious," she told The Messenger . "She helps calm them down."Letting Mellie come to school with her as a therapy dog